Spring 2020 Tour Program Wind Symphony of Concordia University Chicago Dr. Richard R. Fischer, Conductor The Fred and Jane Wittlinger Chair in Music Performance Expression. A pressing out. A breathing out. Pressing keys You, the audience, have expressed your support in with fingers, beating drums with mallets. Exhaling this endeavor by being here. We are grateful for through lips and reeds pressed together so tightly that. And you will, we hope, express appreciation that the air that escapes vibrates in such a way of the efforts of our students through your that it makes our ears—and our hearts—tingle. applause. We are grateful for that, too. And, if you are related to any of the performers, you Expression. Taking a thought, feeling or emotion have expressed your love and care for them by and making it audible—hesitant, confident, bringing them to this point in their lives and by soothing, startling—through words with our instilling in them a love for music. We are eternally friends and family, or through pitches with fellow grateful for that. musicians and audience members. These gifted students before you today, our We encourage our students to play and sing dedicated faculty, and all who so willingly serve expressively, with “expression”—to “say our University wish to express our thanks to our something” through the notes and phrases of Creator and Redeemer for the gift of music and music. We give of ourselves—conductors and for all of you. We hope you enjoy the concert. players alike—when we make music. Whether or not the music is a direct expression of our faith, we are expressing our love of God, whose expression of love for us was in sending Jesus, Jonathan Kohrs, Chair whose expression of love for us was in giving Music Department his life for our redemption. God’s expression of Concordia University Chicago love for us through Christ allows us to respond in thanks by offering of ourselves through God’s wonderful gift of music. For a complete listing of Music@CUC – Spring 2020 concerts at Concordia-Chicago, including those that will be March 20 April 3 May 3 live-streamed, please visit Wind Symphony University Band Spring Music Festival CUChicago.edu/music. Home Concert Concert 7 p.m., Geiseman Auditorium 8 p.m., Chapel 8 p.m., Chapel If you would like to receive June 27 emails about all upcoming March 21 April 26 University Band concerts, send your request Kapelle Home Concert Chamber Orchestra Concert Patriotic Pops Concert to [email protected]. 7:30 p.m., Chapel 7 p.m., Chapel 6:30 p.m., Addison Pillars Lawn If you would like to catch April 27 another performance of this Jazz Band Concert evening’s program, watch our 7 p.m., Chapel home concert live on the web on March 20 at 8 p.m. CDT. You may view more musical events, either live or on demand, at LISTEN LIVE! CUCHICAGO.EDU/LIVE CUChicago.edu/live. CUChicago.edu 2 WIND SYMPHONY Wind Symphony Program Dr. Richard R. Fischer, Conductor The Fred and Jane Wittlinger Chair in Music Performance Alleluia! Laudamus Te (1973)...........................................Alfred Reed (1921-2005) A Celebration Hymn for Winds and Percussion Symphony No. V, “Elements” (2018) .....................................Julie Giroux (b. 1961) II. Rain in D-flat Danzón No. 2 (2009)................................................Arturo Márquez (b. 1950) Trans. Oliver Nickel The Seal Lullaby (2011) ................................................Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) Peter Stigdon, piano Pines of Rome (1923/2009).......................................Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) III. The Pines of the Janiculum (end portion) Trans. Ton van Grevenbroek Eden Schultz, clarinet IV. The Pines of the Appian Way intermission Free-will offering to support the Music Department Lauds (Praise High Day) (1992)...........................................Ron Nelson (b. 1929) L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2 (1872) ........................................George Bizet (1838-1875) III. Menuet Arr. Jean-Michel Sorlin Chloe Dugas, flute; Peter Stigdon, harp IV. Farandole Trans. Charles Godfrey, Jr. On My Heart Imprint Your Image (2020) ............................William R. Brusick (b. 1959) World premiere performances Join us in singing! Please see page 6 for music score. Jazz Suite No. 2 (1938/1983) ..................................Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) March Arr. Johan de Meij Lyric Waltz Tyler Ruthemeyer, accordion Dance I With Heart and Voice (2001) ........................................David Gillingham (b. 1947) SPRING 2020 3 Program Notes Symphony No. 5, “Elements” The Seal Lullaby Julie Giroux was born in Fairhaven, MA, and raised in Phoenix, The White Seal is a beautiful story, classic Kipling, dark and AZ and Monroe, LA. Julie is an accomplished performer on rich and not at all condescending to kids. Best of all, Kipling piano and horn, but her first love is composition. She began begins his tale with the mother seal singing softly to her playing the piano at the age of three and had published her young pup. (The opening poem is called “The Seal Lullaby”). first piece at the age of nine. She has studied with famous Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, cinematic score composers John Williams, Bill Conti and Jerry And black are the waters that sparkled so green. Goldsmith, to name a few. The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. In 1985, she began composing, orchestrating, and conducting Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; music for television and films. To date, Julie has well over 100 Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! film and television credits and has been nominated for an The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Emmy several times. When she won her first Emmy award, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas. she was the first woman and the youngest person ever to – Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936 win the award in that category. Julie has also been privileged to arrange for Celine Dion, Paula Abdul, Dudley Moore, Liza Eric Whitacre is one of the most popular and performed Minnelli, Madonna, Reba McEntire, Little Richard, Billy Crystal, composers of our generation, a distinguished conductor and Michael Jackson and many others. public speaker. Commissions include works for the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber and Julie Giroux, describes Symphony No. V, “Elements” in her the Philharmonia Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, The King’s own words: Singers and Conspirare. His musical, Paradise Lost: Shadows Symphony No. V, “Elements,” is my attempt to describe and Wings, won both the ASCAP Harold Arlen award and the three elements—Sun, Rain, and Wind—with music. the Richard Rodgers Award, and earned 10 nominations at It was my goal to literally submerge the listener in the Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. A versatile musically graphic situations so much so that, after composer, he has also worked with legendary film composer listening to the respective movements, they would Hans Zimmer, co-writing the “Mermaid Theme” for the emotionally “feel” like they had been physically touched feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. by each. I wanted to musically present sunrises as well — E. Whitacre as sunburn to the audience with intense heat, then drench and heal them with rain, and finally blow them back against their seats with the power and excitement of wind. Danzón No. 2 — Julie Giroux Arturo Márquez is a Mexican composer who uses musical forms and styles of his native Mexico. He was born in Alamos, Sonora, in 1950 where his interest in music began. He is the first born of nine children, and the only one of the nine siblings who became a musician. Márquez’s father was a mariachi musician in Mexico and later in Los Angeles, and his paternal grandfather was a Mexican folk musician in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua. He was exposed to several musical styles in his childhood, particularly Mexican “salon music” which would be the impetus for his later musical repertoire. Márquez’s Danzon No. 2 is, along with Jose Pablo Moncayo’s Huapango, Carlos Chavez’s Sinfonia India and Silvestre Revueltas’ Sensemaya, one of the most popular and significant Mexican contemporary classical music compositions performed by orchestras. Danzón No. 2 was commissioned by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and debuted in 1994 in Mexico City by the Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM under the direction of Francisco Savin. The piece focuses on the accents rather than the time signatures, thus the tempo might seem to vary even though it doesn’t, however the precision in every measure remains constant. This contemporary Mexican music literature expresses and reflects on a dance style called Danzón, which has its origins in Cuba but it is a very important part of the folklore of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Márquez got his inspiration while visiting a ballroom in Veracruz. 4 WIND SYMPHONY — adapted from Wikipedia Pines of Rome Pines of Rome, a tone poem for orchestra in four movements by Ottorino Respighi (two of which the Wind Symphony will play for you this evening) premiered in 1924 in Rome. It is the Italian composer’s tribute to scenes around his country’s capital, some contemporary and some recalling the glory of the Roman Empire. It is Respighi’s most frequently performed work. Pines of Rome is the second in a series of three tone poems by Respighi known as the Roman trilogy. It was preceded by Fountains of Rome (1914–16) and followed by Roman Festivals (1929). In his own notes for Pines of Rome, Respighi wrote: While in Fountains of Rome the composer sought to reproduce by means of tones an impression of nature, in Pines of Rome he uses nature as a point of departure, to recall memories and visions.